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Monstrous Girls and Celestial Lovers: Fantasy, Fear, and Female Adolescence in the Malayalam Films Ennu Swantham Janakikutty and Njan Gandharvan
No full textThe Malayalam films Ennu Swantham Janakikutty and Njan Gandharvan reimagine figures from Kerala folklore, namely the Yakṣi and the Gandharva, within coming-of-age narratives. Both films position the characters of the Yakṣi and the Gandharva as fantastical figures who usher the young female protagonist into maturity. Rather than offering a pan-Hindu survey, this study focuses specifically on Kerala’s unique reimaginings of these celestial beings, where these figures carry distinct cultural meanings. This interpretive analysis is situated at the intersection of film studies, religious studies, as well as gender and sexuality studies, drawing particularly on feminist theory and critical approaches to vernacular expressions of Hindu traditions. The article examines how these fantastical figures, shaped by the region’s diverse religious histories, serve as cultural touchstones onto which the female protagonists’ experiences, desires, and transitions into maturity are mapped and mediated
Mapping Muslimness in Hindi Cinema
No full textThis essay reviews two books: Nadira Khatun, Postcolonial Bollywood and Muslim Identity: Production, Representation, and Reception (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), and Mohammed Asim Siddiqui, Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema (New York: Routledge, 2025)
Love + War
No full textThis is a film review of Love + War (2025), directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
Financing Nonprofit Journalism: A Benefits and Revenue Analysis of the Nebraska Journalism Trust
No full textNonprofit organizations often seek revenue streams that are intuitively connected to their mission. However, without careful planning and intentional analysis, nonprofit organizations may not fully maximize their funding potential and develop an effective and balanced revenue portfolio aligned with its mission (Young, 2017). This paper is an organizational analysis of the Nebraska Journalism Trust, a 501c3 nonprofit organization and the publisher of the Flatwater Free Press, to analyze and assess revenue models for public interest nonprofit journalism organizations that serve state and local communities. The Nebraska Journalism Trust illustrates how nonprofit organizations can meet community needs in response to private market failure and how a nonprofit in a nascent subsector can finance its mission.
The case study utilizes benefits theory and portfolio theory to assess the organization’s mission, goods, and beneficiaries, identify logical mission-aligned revenue streams, and evaluate its current portfolio with an ideal revenue portfolio. The case study examines the organization’s financial records and supplements its analyses with interviews with organizational leaders. This case study finds that the organization’s primary benefits are redistributive, group, and public goods. Its mission-aligned sources of support are predominantly oriented around donations with a robust revenue portfolio that is highly aligned with an ideal portfolio. While its revenue is highly concentrated in donations, it is fairly diversified within this category among grantmakers (local and national) and individuals (major donors and small-dollar grassroots donors). This case study concludes its analysis with recommendations to strengthen the revenue portfolio. Future research could compare similar organizations in other communities, groups with narrower constituency focuses, and organizations with different funding or staffing structures. A deeper analysis of specific fundraising tactics and donor motivations could be instructive to understand how new nonprofit journalism organizations can raise funds to reach a higher scale of operations
RELI 4180: History of Christianity II
No full textThis course will focus on the historical development of Christian ideas, practices, and institutions from the reformations of the sixteenth century CE through the early twenty-first century CE.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf-image/1046/thumbnail.jp
An Institutional Repository\u27s Journal Through Title II Web Accessibility Standards
No full textIn April 2024, the implementation of Title II web accessibility standards for government entities prompted immediate reflection on accessibility practices within our institutional repository, DigitalCommons@UNO. This presentation will discuss the Title II standards and their implications for university repositories, describe the development of workflows for ensuring repository content meets these standards, and discuss the ongoing challenges for remediation
Raising Public Awareness on Space Themes: Analysis of Brazilian Space Policy Using Data from Google Trends
No full textThis study examines whether Brazil’s national space policy goal of increasing public awareness of space activities has been met, using Google Trends data as a proxy for public interest. While public perception surveys are scarce outside the United States, web-based data provide a cost-effective and timely alternative for gauging public engagement. The authors analyzed two decades (2004–2024) of Brazilian search activity related to space topics, institutions, technologies, companies, and missions. Results show no clear upward trend in public interest, suggesting that Brazil’s stated policy objectives of raising awareness have not yet translated into measurable outcomes. Although searches related to government institutions are declining, interest in commercial and private-sector space activities appears more stable or slightly increasing. The findings indicate that successful public engagement strategies in Brazil’s space sector may depend on embracing the emerging NewSpace paradigm, highlighting private-sector participation and tangible societal benefits. This work also demonstrates the potential of Google Trends as a valuable tool for assessing policy effectiveness in contexts where traditional polling is limited